Holonomy invariants of links and nonabelian Reidemeister torsion

DOI10.4171/QT/160MaRDI QIDQ2125353zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Calvin McPhail-Snyder

Publication date 14 April 2022

Published in Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01133

zbMATH Keywords

Burau representationholonomymodified tracequantum doubletorsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Baxter equations (16T25) Knot polynomials (57K14) Finite-type and quantum invariants, topological quantum field theories (TQFT) (57K16)

Abstract: We show that the reduced $mathrm{SL}_2(mathbbC)$-twisted Burau representation can be obtained from the quantum group $mathcal{U}_q(mathfrak{sl}_2)$ for $q=i$ a fourth root of unity and that representations of $mathcal{U}_q(mathfrak{sl}_2)$ satisfy a type of Schur-Weyl duality with the Burau representation. As a consequence, the $operatorname{SL}_2(mathbbC)$-twisted Reidemeister torsion of links can be obtained as a quantum invariant. Our construction is closely related to the quantum holonomy invariant of Blanchet, Geer, Patureau-Mirand, and Reshetikhin, and we interpret their invariant as a twisted Conway potential.

Review text

The results of this paper are mostly algebraic, not topological. The authors show how to reproduce a known invariant, the torsion, in terms of quantum groups. More precisely, their first major result is to show that the reduced \(SL_2(\mathbb{C})\)-twisted Bureau representation can be obtained from the quantum group \(\mathcal{U}_q(sl_2)\) for \(q=i\) a fourth root of unity and that representations of \(\mathcal{U}_q(sl_2)\) satisfy a type of Schur-Weyl duality with the Bureau representation. As a consequence of this duality, they show that the \(SL_2(\mathbb{C})\)-twisted torsion of a link can be obtained as a quantum holonomy invariant. Their construction is closely related to the quantum holonomy invariant of Blanchet-Geer-Patureau-Mirand-Reshetikhin [\textit{C. Blanchet} et al., Sel. Math., New Ser. 26, No. 2, Paper No. 19, 58 p. (2020; Zbl 1441.57010)].

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